How Super PACs Will Try To Convice You To Stay Home On Election Day

2012 will be the first election cycle where Super PACs pick up some of the major two parties’ dirty work: suppressing the vote in a new and improved way, with even less transparency and accountability. Read this article for self-defense, and spread the word. An important excerpt:

Super PACs are the perfect vehicle for voter suppression, thanks to two crucial advantages they have over traditional campaigns. First, they operate in a legal black hole of opaque disclosure requirements that allows them to disguise their activities. Second, a candidate’s campaign is shielded from a super PACs’ duplicitous actions by a legal firewall that prevents coordination between the two entities. These features afford a super PAC plausible deniability: they can suppress the vote while claiming to have done something else, and the candidate can easily disavow a super PAC’s actions.